Back in the old days, a prospective academic author could submit a manuscript —sometimes even a barely reworked dissertation — and book editors would consider it for publication. Now, even if you’ve ...

After a lengthy hiatus caused by other obligations, I am back with the third installment in my series of posts about how how to publish an academic book. In Part I, I summarized the criteria that can ...

Other academics, particularly younger scholars, often ask me about how to get an academic book published. When I recently floated the idea of writing a series of blog posts about this issue, on social ...

We offer all University affiliates access to an electronic version of the New Faculty Guide to Competing for Research Funding, a resource for those who are new to submitting proposals, and reference ...

Proposal writing can be overwhelming. It is a skill, and it is a skill acquired through practice. Few people enjoy rejection, but it happens. To make your proposal as compelling as possible and avoid ...

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) provides proposal development services to help increase the competitiveness of grant proposals. Services can include writing, editing, proofreading and rigorous ...

This free, week-long proposal writing retreat is open to all research-active faculty and staff from any unit at UW (and all branches and affiliate programs statewide). We mean it--any job type, any ...

A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for graduate students.) ...